In the review below, the critic describes Antarctic Traveller as a well crafted debut. These poems convey the quotidian and the unfamiliar equally well with dazzling imagery and careful craftsmanship. For instance, in a series of 'Vegetable Poems' the everyday potato is seen with 'softened, mealy flesh / rotting into the earth … but still flinging up roots and occasional leaves / white as fish in caves,' and the unfamiliar 'A Turkish Story' tells of a rug weaver who kept his daughters at home, unmarried, while he worked on a rug that would have no errors. When he died, his daughters married husbands 'strong as the sea. / They danced on the rug and its errors blazed like stars.' Antarctic Traveller is a young poet's first book, and it's a good one.